Got woken up this morning by another text asking me to cover today’s lessons for the grade 1 teacher as they were still off sick. I got to school and had English in the morning with grade 1A and then it was lunchtime. After lunch I took grade 1A up to their music lesson and I started on the display board for the classroom for the next lesson. During this time I found out that one of the children had banged his head on the climbing frame and had been taken to hospital for stitches! I was also given another unofficial job offer to stay on at the school, this time as a teaching assistant for the grade 4 teacher and office assistant with a pay offer of 10,000 RMB (£1000 p/m, double what I was offered before) and money towards my flights, as long as they can organise a visa for me.
At 1.30pm I had my English lesson with grade 2C to finish their “all about me” project, tomorrow is their last lesson with me so I want to make sure they have finished it so I can do something fun with them. There was one child who did barely anything in that lesson and was messing about the whole time I told him that if he was going to act like a 1st grader then he was going to have to come and work with the first graders to finish his work after snack time. He had 3 worksheets to finish and after snack he came and sat in the “naughty corner” of the grade 1A classroom to finish his work, while my grade 1A class were working on their time lines (they were working really well and quietly, I was so proud of them showing the second grade child how to work). Funnily enough, with no distractions and being shown up by my first grade class, he finished all three worksheets in 1 lesson, why couldn’t he work that well during his own English class?!
My next lesson was social studies which flew by and before I knew it, it was 4pm and time to send the kids home. I finished some laminating and decided that the marking can wait until tomorrow, then I went to meet Raena and Doreenda for dinner and to discuss the job offer I had had earlier as I feel really torn about it. We made a pros and cons list which didn’t really help my decision either, I really don’t know what I want to do. When I got home I had an email asking if I can cover the teachers classes again tomorrow and I skyped Matt to discuss the job offer. Looks like I have lot’s to think about over the next few days.
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